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The Business Of A Life: George Herbert’s “Business”
Through Lent With George Herbert Tuesday After The Fifth Sunday Of Lent The interest in this next poem, as Ann Pasternak Slater notes, begins with the meter, “a remorselessly regular trochaic tetrameter catalectic” (and, yes, I have to look that … Continue reading
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Tagged "Business", George Herbert, Repentance, Sin and Salvation
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Is This George Herbert’s Worst Poem? “The British Church”
Through Lent With George Herbert Monday After The Fifth Sunday Of Lent Is this George Herbert’s worst poem? Ann Pasternak Slater calls it “one of Herbert’s least interesting poems.” John Drury calls it “not one of his great pieces.” Herbert … Continue reading
God Has A Plan to Deal With Poverty And We’re Not Following It
A Sermon preached on The Fifth Sunday of Lent (The Beginning of Passiontide in the Church of England) at the Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete, Greece, Part of the Diocese in Europe. 11:00 am April 7, … Continue reading
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Tagged Extreme Poverty, Poverty, The Poor Will Be With You Always
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Entropy: George Herbert’s “Decay”
Through Lent With George Herbert Saturday After The Fourth Sunday Of Lent Decay Sweet were the days, when thou didst lodge with Lot, Struggle with Jacob, sit with Gideon, Advise with Abraham, when thy power could not Encounter Moses’ strong … Continue reading
A Procession to Death: George Herbert’s “Mortification”
Through Lent With George Herbert Friday After The Fourth Sunday Of Lent Mortification. How soon doth man decay ! When clothes are taken from a chest of sweets To swaddle infants, whose young breath Scarce knows the way ; Those … Continue reading
The Paradox of Justice: George Herbert’s “Justice (1)”
Through Lent With George Herbert Thursday After the Fourth Sunday of Lent Justice (I) I cannot skill of these thy ways. Lord, thou didst make me, yet thou woundest me; Lord, thou dost wound me, yet thou dost relieve me: … Continue reading
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The Dear Feast Of Lent: George Herbert’s “Lent”
Through Lent With George Herbert Wednesday After The Fourth Sunday of Lent Lent Welcome dear feast of Lent: who loves not thee, He loves not Temperance, or Authority, But is compos’d of passion. The Scriptures bid us fast; the Church … Continue reading
Hiding In Plain Sight: George Herbert’s “Coloss. 3.3”
Through Lent With George Herbert Tuesday After The Fourth Sunday Of Lent Coloss. 3.3. Our life is hid with Christ in God My words and thoughts do both express this notion, That Life hath with the sun a double motion. … Continue reading
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: George Herbert’s “Sunday”
Through Lent With George Herbert The Fourth Sunday of Lent: Mothering Sunday Normally I post my sermon on Sundays here, but I am not preaching this week – Julia Bradshaw, our postulant for the diaconate here at St. Thomas, Kefalas, … Continue reading
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George Herbert’s “To Saints and Angels”
Through Lent With George Herbert Saturday after the Third Sunday of Lent To All Angels and Saints Oh glorious spirits, who after all your bands See the smooth face of God, without a frown Or strict commands; Where ev’ry one … Continue reading
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